In the pre-dawn hours of March 18, 1990, following a festive St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, two men dressed as police officers walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked off with an estimated $500 million in art treasures. Despite efforts by the local police, federal agents, amateur sleuths and not a few journalists, no one has found any of the 13 works lost in the largest art theft in history, including a rare Vermeer and three precious Rembrandts.
The art hasn't resurfaced probably because it was never sold. "biggest art height" is based on some arbitrary valuations for a totally illiquid market. It could have just been $5 billion or $50 million . Reselling stolen art is close to impossible...pennies on the dollar is optimistic. Also if anyone did come forward with the artwork, they would immediately be deemed a suspect (I dunno how the statute of limitations would come into play here).
The tying up of the guard constitutes kidnapping under New York law, and the fact that they did so pursuant to another felony (grand theft) means that there is no statute of limitations on this case. Everything else about the case is past the statute of limitations, though.
The art hasn't resurfaced probably because it was never sold. "biggest art height" is based on some arbitrary valuations for a totally illiquid market. It could have just been $5 billion or $50 million . Reselling stolen art is close to impossible...pennies on the dollar is optimistic. Also if anyone did come forward with the artwork, they would immediately be deemed a suspect (I dunno how the statute of limitations would come into play here).